29th Dec 2016, 3:45 PM

If I might get a bit more serious for a moment as an old educator (escaped) the way it looks like going is that future generations will be deluged in data. Information will be everywhere and all pervasive. The skills they will need most will probably revolve around working out what they need and being able to access it.

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29th Dec 2016, 4:49 PM

In this story, there are data "harvesters" which sweep vast areas of cloud data like whales sweep in huge amounts of plankton. They then digest the data, making it their domain, then "dumping" it all in cyber banks. You have to have enormous power and skills to "mine" or retrieve the data your looking for. And it is very dangerous, as the banks are guarded by black ice predators. and they will fry your brains and kill you.